Journey to the West: I have Nine Golden Crows Inside Me
Chapter 237 - 237 227 Secrets of Ancient Times

237: Chapter 227: Secrets of Ancient Times 237: Chapter 227: Secrets of Ancient Times A thought crossed his mind.

Jiang Chen spread his hands, using Daoist techniques to harness and channel the energy of heaven and earth into the Soul Refining flag beneath him.

Boom!

With the aid of the energy of heaven and earth, the power of the Innate Soul Refining Formation exploded, reaching its limit.

Within the formation, winds and thunder stirred, lightning interwove, and scenes of the apocalypse emerged.

Vaguely, it was possible to see, above the formation, countless intertwining patterns, forming a phantom image of a giant pot, flickering in and out of view.

It was the top-grade Innate Spiritual Treasure, Demon Refining Pot.

As the Innate Soul Refining Formation was pushed to its peak, it managed to borrow a sliver of power from the real body of the Demon Refining Pot.

Boom!

With the great formation running at full force, it grew even stronger.

More demon corpses were disassembled, their essence transformed into strong energy, hovering in mid-air.

At this speed of refining, probably in a few days, all the demon corpses here would be entirely refined, which would be over ten times faster than before.

Previously, although Jiang Chen could set up the Innate Soul Refining Formation, he couldn’t have pushed its power to such an extreme level.

It was only after he had just received the Shangqing inheritance and dramatically improved his comprehension of the formation that he developed his current ability.

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The resting human experts nearby sensed the commotion and turned their attention towards it.

Then, they saw the flickering phantom image of the Demon Refining Pot in the sky.

“Hmm, is this the Innate Soul Refining Formation?” Someone asked dubiously, their eyes filled with disbelief.

Although he recognized the Innate Soul Refining Formation, he didn’t dare confirm it.

That’s because, although the Innate Soul Refining Formation is the human inheritance, due to certain reasons that cannot be revealed publicly, such a formation can only be learned and used by practitioners of the Ancient Martial Arts.

Other human beings are not qualified to learn it.

After the Ancient Times, as practitioners of the Ancient Martial Arts declined, this path of cultivation became scarce in the Three Realms.

The powerful formations that once dominated the Prehistoric World also faded from people’s sight and gradually became a legend.

Ordinary people have never even heard of, let alone understand, the Innate Soul Refining Formation.

But the human experts present were mostly disciples of ancient races or clans, and their families had once produced powerful practitioners of the Ancient Martial Arts.

So, even if they hadn’t seen the Innate Soul Refining Formation, they had heard of it.

Now that they had seen it, they could roughly recognize it even if they didn’t dare confirm it.

Upon hearing this, everyone took a closer look, and after a while, they confirmed that it was indeed the formidable formation that hadn’t appeared in the human world for millions of years: the Innate Soul Refining Formation.

“Who would have thought, in this era of the Three Realms, that we would see our race’s dominant formation from the Prehistoric World again.

It truly evokes nostalgia,” someone commented lightly, stroking his beard.

“Exactly, after the Ancient Times, many of our race’s formidable formations couldn’t be used anymore, leaving us, the later generations, no chance to witness the power of the human ancient formations.

Today, we have truly broadened our horizons.”

“Just look at the power of that formation, it is by no means trivial.

Any being below Great Golden Immortal who enters it will surely die, being refined within a few breaths.”

The crowd gathered around the Innate Soul Refining Formation, discussing, praising, and exclaiming in admiration.

After a moment, someone suddenly said, “When I was at home, I vaguely remembered the old Patriarch saying that in the Holy Temple of our ancestral land, there enshrines an Innate Soul Refining Formation refined by the first emperor.”

“I wonder what its power would be like when fully activated?”

Seeing the workings of Jiang Chen’s Innate Soul Refining Formation raised their curiosity about the original formation in the legend.

Even a replica was already amazing enough.

How powerful would the original one be?

A man asked this question without expecting an answer.

After all, the story was from countless ages ago, and how many people would know about it in this era?

Unexpectedly, as soon as he finished his sentence, someone else interjected: “My friend, your information is outdated.

I heard from my family’s ancestors about that formation.

It seems that in the Shang Dynasty of the Ancient Times, a certain Emperor borrowed it.”

“Then, that Emperor, using the power of his entire dynasty, arranged that formation in the heavenly realm, and alive refined a prominent figure from the heavenly realm.”

“For this, the Heavenly Dao was outraged and personally descended to destroy the Innate Soul Refining Formation.”

This was a secret from the ancient times, a secret no one knew about.

For a moment, everyone’s attention was drawn by this person’s words.

Even Jiang Chen, who was maintaining the formation in the distance, couldn’t help but sneak a trace of his divine consciousness to pay attention to this place.

“And then?” someone urged.

The man wrinkled his brow in thought and was about to speak when Long Ye suddenly interrupted, “That’s enough.

You dare to speak such secrets out loud.

Are you really not afraid of death?”

Judging from Long Ye’s attitude, he obviously knew about this matter and knew more details than the man.

But from his words, it could also be known that this matter was not something that could be casually mentioned.

Upon hearing this, the man seemed to realize something and quickly shut his mouth.

Seeing this, others, although curious, also understood that this matter was not meant for them to know, and hence didn’t inquire further.

Everyone laughed it off and moved the topic elsewhere.

In the distance, Jiang Chen, who didn’t get to hear the ancient secret, felt a bit disappointed, but he didn’t care much.

What was not meant to be known was just because one’s power was not strong enough.

As long as one’s power was strong enough, all kinds of secrets would automatically appear before one’s eyes, even if one didn’t actively seek them.

With a thought, Jiang Chen turned his attention back to the Soul Refining Formation.

At this moment, almost all the demon corpses inside the Soul Refining Formation had been refined after a long operation, with only a dozen Taiyi Golden Immortal corpses remaining.

After another day, the demon corpses inside the formation were finally all refined, turning into a dense cloud of blood floating within the formation.

At this point, Jiang Chen made another sealing gesture, and the formation instantly transformed; the wind and thunder disappeared, the lightning extinguished, and then Innate divine light emerged and continuously swept over the blood cloud.

This continued for a day, then Jiang Chen abruptly dissolved the formation.

Swish, swish, swish…

With the dissolution of the formation, the hundred and eight Soul Refining flags flew back into Jiang Chen’s hands.

After refining these demons, the Soul Refining flags had benefited significantly.

The momentum on them had subtly increased by a third, showing signs of advancing to an Acquired Treasure.

This was the ability of the refining flag, possessing strong growth potential.

The more demons it refined, the stronger it became.

Moreover, there was also the possibility it could eventually become as powerful as a Innate Spiritual Treasure.

After tucking away the Soul Refining flags, Jiang Chen looked down.

In his field of vision were two groups of blood essence shrouded in divine light, one big and one small.

This was the outcome of the Soul Refining Formation.

The large essence was shrouded by the energy of heaven and earth, emanating astonishing energy fluctuations that marked it as extraordinary at first glance.

The smaller essence was even more extraordinary.

ps.: The Fallen Era has ended.

Starting from tomorrow, there will be a mass release of chapters.

If not, I will chop off my hand.

Also, the typhoon is really incredible.

The tree at the door was uprooted, and electricity poles were knocked down.